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The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) [a] is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States.The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.
Andrea M. Ghez, PhD 1992; Crafoord Prize Laureate in Astronomy, 2012; Sackler Prize winner; awarded MacArthur Fellowship; co-recipient of 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy" Donald A. Glaser, PhD 1950; Nobel laureate in physics (1960) "for the invention of the bubble chamber"
It took months of paint stripping and other work to restore it to operational status. The Caltech administration ordered its return in 1975, but negotiations began for an official transfer of the cannon back to Caltech in 1980, and in 1981 it was returned on a permanent basis to the Caltech campus. The cannon was stolen by Harvey Mudd students ...
The long quest for gender parity. For Caltech, a campus of 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students with 47 Nobel awards and more than 50 research centers, the road to gender parity has been long.
[1]: 275 Over the next few years, as Caltech's president emeritus David Baltimore describes it, Arnold Beckman and his wife Mabel "shaped the destiny of Caltech". [1]: 288 The Beckmans made a major gift to Caltech in 1962, when they funded the construction of the Beckman Auditorium, a concert hall designed by architect Edward Durrell Stone ...
[4] She gave a tour of the Caltech seismology lab for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Scientists group. [20] [better source needed] Hutton was the consulting seismologist for the 1990 monster movie Tremors starring Kevin Bacon. [21] She also appeared in the 1981 Nostradamus documentary-movie The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. [citation needed]
It my time at Caltech (mid 2000s), the spelling "Hovse" was popular among undergraduates because the signs on the South Houses use that spelling, in imitation of ancient Roman inscriptions that lack the "U" glyph. And gdbg.org is independent of Caltech as it was written by a former student, and should be considered reliable for these purposes.
David Ho was born in Taichung, Taiwan, to Paul (何步基; Hé Bùjī), an engineer, and Sonia Ho (née Jiang) (江雙如; Jiāng Shuāngrú).He attended Taichung Municipal Guang-Fu Elementary School until sixth grade before immigrating to the United States with his mother and younger brother to unite with his father, who had already been in the US since 1957.